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CIOL membership - necessary for "certified translations" in the UK?
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Apr 30, 2020

Hi,
These days, I am working as a part-time freelancer who receives work (mainly birth certificates, university transcripts, etc) on a very ad hoc basis. As such I am not earning very much at all from this work. I have the DipTrans from CIOL and I was wondering how essential it is to have a full membership to the CIOL to carry out these translations and for them to satisfy official institutions. Is self-certification enough or do institutions check credentials for example on Find-a-linguis... See more
Hi,
These days, I am working as a part-time freelancer who receives work (mainly birth certificates, university transcripts, etc) on a very ad hoc basis. As such I am not earning very much at all from this work. I have the DipTrans from CIOL and I was wondering how essential it is to have a full membership to the CIOL to carry out these translations and for them to satisfy official institutions. Is self-certification enough or do institutions check credentials for example on Find-a-linguist? ▲ Collapse
 
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
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Portugal
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Member (2007)
English to Portuguese
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Not necessary, as far as I know Apr 30, 2020

Please check:

https://www.ciol.org.uk/certified-translations

and

https://www.gov.uk/certifying-a-document
 


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